After beg outed and bullied for beg gay, Khalid Abl-Hadi cid to change the nversatn about LGBTQ people the Arab world.
Contents:
- GAY JORDAN TRAVEL GUI
- GAY AMMAN TRAVEL GUI
- AN EMERGG SCENE: GAY CULTURE JORDAN
- EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
- EXPLORG AMMAN’S GAY SPAC
- JORDAN GAY TRAVEL
- GAY PRI MONTH IS A TIME FOR JOY, BUT ALSO TO REFLECT ON THOSE STILL BEG PERSECUTED
GAY JORDAN TRAVEL GUI
, statn travel guis wh a gay perspective. * being gay in jordan *
Rears stem om all across the MENA regn and Where do you thk Amman fs among other gay statns the Middle East?
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GAY AMMAN TRAVEL GUI
LGBT Rights Jordan: homosexualy, gay marriage, gay adoptn, servg the ary, sexual orientatn discrimatn protectn, changg legal genr, donatg blood, age of nsent, and more. * being gay in jordan *
Homosexual activy Jordan is Homosexual activy has been legal Jordan sce 1951, however, the Penal Co clus vague provisns around "moraly" and "cent acts" that uld be ed to target LGBTQ+ people. In 2014, for example, Jordan thori arrted 10 gay men and women who were holdg a receptn at a party hall.
AN EMERGG SCENE: GAY CULTURE JORDAN
Amman's smopolan atmosphere make a great statn for gay travelers to the Middle East. Fd a lively bar and rtrant scene, a welg populatn and many tourist thgs to do Amman this gay gui to Jordan's pal cy. * being gay in jordan *
While homosexualy is legal, there still isn't much of an out and proud gay scene Amman or the rt of Jordan. At the same time, seeg men holdg hands public is relatively mon – ’s a sign of iendship, and many Jordanian men are que appreciative of male bety even if they’re not gay, so may screw up your gaydar!
EVERYTHG YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEG GAY MLIM UNTRI
* being gay in jordan *
Even whout any tablished LGBTQ-specific venu, many of the bars and rtrants popular wh Amman's large ternatnal populatn of expats are there are some known hangouts for gay lols and visg tourists. Partly a rtrant, fe, bar, and lounge, Books@Cafe is the ** place Amman for gay lols, tourists, and expats. Thanks to tremendo support om the reigng Queen of Jordan, homosexual rights - rather than movg backward - are fally at a stable place the untry.
EXPLORG AMMAN’S GAY SPAC
Fd fun, bety, and some hunky gay men Jordan. * being gay in jordan *
As one of the more progrsive untri the Middle East terms of protectns for s LGBT populatn, Jordan is a relatively easy place to travel as a gay person, but homophobia fely still exists.
JORDAN GAY TRAVEL
The official fictn, Brian Whaker explas, is that gay people don’t exist the Middle East. They do – and for many of them, attus of fay and society are a bigger problem than fear of beg persecuted * being gay in jordan *
While there is not a massive out gay populatn, there are multiple “gay centric” venu that ter to both the lol and ternatnal gay muny. Forster went to Alexandria, Egypt, to have his first experience of gay love, and one of the most famo gay poets of the twentieth century, Constante Cavafy, also hailed om that sprawlg metropolis on the sea.
Recently however, a lot of the great gay statns of the Middle East have not been gettg good prs.
GAY PRI MONTH IS A TIME FOR JOY, BUT ALSO TO REFLECT ON THOSE STILL BEG PERSECUTED
The Middle East; 's gayer than you thk * being gay in jordan *
First, the unrt associated wh the Arab sprg has ma stalwarts of gay travel statns like Tunisia ls appealg.
Even hotspot Beit, long known for s excg nightlife and hunky men, has bee ls attractive as Helem, the area's only LGBT anizatn reports that Article 534 of the Lebane Penal Co ("sexual terurse ntrary to nature" is punishable for up to 1 year prison) has been ed recently to harass gay and bisexual sce the famo Nile Queen cint ( which 52 gay Egyptian men were arrted and 'examed' for dancg whout women partners on a floatg dis), Egypt is not nearly as open as ed to be. Iran and Sdia Arabia, whatever their cultural appeal to tourists, rema difficult to vis and are known to execute gay men. S-led vasn has sce seen some of the worst gay-bashg and murr of homosexual men the Middle 's Left?
Like many Mlim untri, homosexual acts and cross-drsg are nsired 'sful' but they aren't technilly illegal.
Jordan is one of only three untri the MENA regn, alongsi Bahra and Iraq, where same-sex activy is not illegal. The fact that homosexualy is not illegal do not make Jordan a gay-iendly untry. * being gay in jordan *
A gay uple n walk the street arm--arm or holdg hands while a straight uple would get dirty looks.
"Amman, the pal, has some worthy attractns, most notably Roman s, pecially the Roman Theater (at night the cy's ma cisg area for gay men) and Jebel al-Qal'a, the ancient cal which clus s of a temple to Hercul, a mm, and the remas of an Umayyad palace, along wh stunng views of the morn urban sprawl of Amman.